After completing this lesson, students will be able to:

• Explore the application of materials, rich photorealistic content, and backgrounds to create different and more realistic visual effects.
• Understand how to add external lighting to create more natural-looking rendering results.
• Appreciate the value of creating viewpoints that highlight the objects of interest and diminish or even hide the appearance of other objects.
• Explore scene and object animations to create project visualizations and real-time walk-throughs.